RAM, Books and Flicks

Today, I got the RAM I ordered for my computer, so my machine is all nice and souped up (as much as it can be) and ready for the making of the new Pros vid. Hopefully, Final Cut will be kinder now that it's got 2 GB to play with.

I also got the notification that Amazon UK has shipped both the Martin Shaw bio and the Sharpe Making of book. Yay! Sometimes a gal just needs fun fluff.

Also, the program books and schedule for the Toronto Film Fest come out tomorrow. And since that change of life we've been looking forward to looks like it'll most likely be delayed till next year, I may just take a few days off during the fest. Either way, I'm seeing Viggo in Alatriste if I have to beg every contact I have for a ticket. Which hopefully I won't. (We're about due for a decent place in the lottery. Knock on wood.)

Oh Crap

I've just seen an episode of The Chief that I adored. Rats. I wasn't supposed to start actually liking the show. I was supposed to burn through the episodes and get them off the PVR.

Anyway, it's the episode where Cade brings in the Italian judge to speak at a law enforcement conference. The ep's got all the usual flaws of the show (shoddy production values, a lousy musical score, heavy-handed moralizing) but the character stuff was lovely.

The friendship between Cade and the judge is nicely played by both actors, not to mention there's a h/c factor, always a good thing in my books. (Cade is shot while trying to protect his friend from an assassination attempt.) And there's some nicely mysterious stuff with Cade trying to figure out why he intimately knows the location of the conference when he can't remember having been there before. It also doesn't hurt that Martin is utterly gorgeous in this one, being all broody and guilt-stricken. (You Pros fans out there, does that remind you of anyone?)

All in all, a most satisfying ep.

Now I'm going to have to start taping the darn things again.

ETA: Almost forgot to mention that the Cade icon from the lovely agentxpndble.